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m3taversal fcc568f489 clay: address PR #64 review — backfire effect, Putnam causality, source archives 
- Fix: soften backfire effect language in IPC claim — distinguish Kahan's robust finding (polarization increases with cognitive skill) from the contested backfire effect (Wood & Porter 2019, Guess & Coppock 2020 show minimal evidence)
- Fix: qualify Putnam's TV causal claim as regression decomposition with contested causal interpretation
- Add: cross-domain wiki links — Olson→alignment tax + voluntary pledges, IPC→AI alignment coordination + voluntary pledges
- Add: 6 source archive stubs for canonical academic texts (Olson, Granovetter, Dunbar, Blackmore, Putnam, Kahan)

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source The polarizing impact of science literacy and numeracy on perceived climate change risks Dan Kahan https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate1547 2012-05-27 cultural-dynamics paper processed clay 2026-03-08
identity-protective cognition causes people to reject evidence that threatens their group identity even when they have the cognitive capacity to evaluate it correctly
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The Polarizing Impact of Science Literacy and Numeracy on Perceived Climate Change Risks

Published in Nature Climate Change. Demonstrates that higher scientific literacy and numeracy predict greater polarization on culturally contested issues, not less. Extended by Kahan 2017 (Advances in Political Psychology) and Kahan et al. 2013 (Journal of Risk Research) with the gun-control statistics experiment.